Mayor David Bing implemented deep spending cuts earlier. He fired thousands of workers. He outsourced vital services. Profiteers took full advantage. Bing's got much more in mind.

Orr's in charge. His job is radically restructuring Detroit. Expect the worst ahead. He'll do it on the backs of ordinary people. He'll fire city workers, cut wages and benefits, erode vital services, and end others.

He'll hand over Detroit to bankers and other profiteers. Public resources will be plundered. Doing so assures greater crisis conditions. Unemployment will grow. Poverty will increase. Ordinary people will be left high and dry.

Finance is a new form of warfare. Economies are strip-mined for profit. Communities are laid waste. Ordinary people are impoverished. They're left out on their own.

Corrupt federal, state and local officials arrange things. They do so for greater power and self-enrichment.

John McMurtry is a Progressive Radio News Hour regular. His "Cancer Stage of Capitalism" explains. Its new edition expands on what he wrote earlier. He discusses a money sequencing life destroying system.

Economies and communities are plundered for profit. Financial bosses are more powerful than standing armies. They take full advantage.

Detroit is ground zero. It reflects what's wrong with America. It exposes predatory capitalism's failure. It represents the worst of what's coming.

Ordinary people are out of luck. Greater pain and suffering will follow. Democracy's nowhere in sight. Monied interests matter most.

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